Indiana Court Keeps Halt on Abortion Law for Non-Christian Group

A trial court’s order preventing Indiana from enforcing its anti-abortion law against a group of people whose religions don’t share the Christian belief that life begins at conception will stay in place for now, after the state’s top court refused to hear state officials’ appeal.

The Indiana Supreme Court didn’t give a reason for rejecting a petition to transfer the case from the appeals court, but it was “prudent” to send the suit back to a trial judge to decide the issues on the merits first, a concurring justice wrote on Tuesday.

The case presented “transfer-worthy issues with previously undecided ...